ii SECOND PftRT. OT ONE YARKEE IETA VICTIM Of the Scourge That Is Sweep ing Europe, Though Thou sands Are Abroad. ENGLAND FULL OF THEM. Hundreds of Americans Likely to Eemain Atvay for Months. Over 150,000 Human Beings Havo Al ready Perished of the Pestilence Hamburg's Great Criminal Mistake Spread of Contagion by the City's Water ByEtem The Disease There In Its If ost Virulent Form The English Ridiculing the Calling of the Plague by Any Other Name Than That of Cholera What the Steamship Com panies Will Do. HIT OLBLZ TO TOT DISPATCH. J London, Sept. S. CopyrigU. Kot un til this ireek bu Europe realized the full measure of the awful calamity which hat befallen the Old "World in the cholera epi demic. Etch now England is not much alarmed, although the pestilence is at her ten- gates and has actually crossed the in sufficient barriers at more than one point It is lar too early with the turning point of the evil, it it hoped, just pasted, to make op the fatal record. Already it it the story of one of the great catastrophes of the age. I hare been eximinlng the grim, daily death roll of the past month, and the figures at the bottom of the column, inadequate as they are, make an appalling total. More than 150,000 human beings in Europe have already perished of the pesti lence. That estimate, I fear, is far too loir. It it bated almost solely upon the official reports from the infected districts, and in those reports there is grave reason for be lieving that in many cases they hare fallen far thort of the truth. Russians the Greatest Sufferers. More than nine-tenths of the victims of the scourge have been Russians, and about the details of its terrific work in that coun try we know almost nothing. The terrible story behind that grim daily bulletin from St. Petersburg announcing from 2,500 to 4,000 deaths is not to be told. Gradually the facts are transpiring about the introduction and spread of the disease in Western Europe. Its track has been pretty clearly defined now, and It is inter esting to trace. It has been said that Bus sian emigrants, most of them bound to America, hare introduced the disease wher ever it has appeared we3t of the Czar's dominions. This is for the most part true, but the immigrants have come from a dis trict where the Bussian authorities have de clared there is little or no cholera namely, Poland. The Russian Hebrews who took the disease to Hamburg came from Poland, so did the emigrants who have fallen ill with it at a dozen places in Austria. Two or three from the tame unhappy and be nighted country have been stricken down with the plague in England this week, but from Poland itself we hear nothing. It is more difficult to get news from there than from Greenland or Central Africa. By and by there will come a frightful ttory of pestilence and death among a destitute and starving people. Hamburg' Grrat Criminal Mistake. In nearly all places where the disease has been introduced except Hamburg it has been promptly and efficiently combatted. Hamburg made a criminal mistake which already has cost many hundred lives, and which has Drought the worst disaster which could have befallen the commercial inter ests of the city. Her authorities met the crisis with inadequate measures and sought to conceal as long as possible the presence of the arch enemy. I visited Hamburg early last week, at the moment when she should have been making a tupreme effort to avert the calami ty which threatened her. Cholera had already gained a foothold there, and from 50 to 75 persons wery dying daily of the pestilence. In the harbor quarter few beyond those directlr concerned knew that the disease had entere'd the city. The town never appeared more attractive. It is a fair and beautiful citv, almost Vene tian in its wealtn of water ways. Its streets are clean and well paved, and out wardlv, the public regard for good sanitary conditions seems fully up to the average of large towns. The only thing to excife ap prehension was the almost stagnant condi tion of some of the canals, which penetrate even the heart of tht business section. Great business houses facing a busy street in front abuting directlr upon a canal in the rear. It should be under stood that the harbor section of the free port isseparated from the rest of the city by a wide canal. Bridges cross this canal, but they are always guarded by customs officers who exercise a striot supervision over all who cross. The entry of persons and goods to the harbor section is free. The customs regulations do not come in iorce until the canal barrier is reached. Contagion In the TTater Snpp'y. The harbor section comprises some of the best docks in Europe, many great warehouses for the storage of goods, and the homes of dock laborers and similar peo- le. It wat in this section that the cholera rst appeared, and there it probably would have been confined but for the great disas ter of the contamination of the city'a water supply. The Poles who succumbed to the plague two weeks ago were taken to bar racks on a branch ot the Elbe, just above the city. The appalling folly was there com mitted of allowing the water, etc,, which they used, to enter the stream without being disinfected. The city's supplv of water is drawn from near this spot. Then followed the fatal policy of concealment: and finally, when the pestilence had burst all bounds, the local authorities of Hamburg seem to have become completely demoralized. No reliance whatever it to be placed upon their official reports of the spread of the disease during the past week. They admit to-day that about 2.000 nernn Iit- !-.t tx.. plague in the city, out nobody knows the correct figures. I received a letter yesterday from a Ham b,1rS .newspaper man in which he said that ail the returns were grossly inadequate and mcomDlete una , tt ;fi v. . ii .7 t,.rr. "-"",- ",""" luus me . aw a inn mmp t rrn va .- i , m ! apparent rate of mortality which the published figures show, amount ing to more than 50 per cent of the persons attacked, is probably misleading. It grows out of the fact that a larcer proportion of the number of actual deaths are reported than of the number of new cases. Cholera In Its Very Wont Form. There Is no denying that the disease is in its most virulent lonn, but a CO per ent JOHN liA-VTBEXCE SUIA.TYAX. death rate, under intelligent modern treat ment, is much higher than even Busa re ports. It must be admitted that the bacteriologists have furnished no new weapon against the enemy. Dr. Koch has identified his comma bacillus at Hamburg, but the new branch of medical science has nothing to offer yet, beyond resistance in making correct diagnosis, which has hardly been needed. Eight here let it be said that the medical men on this side have abandoned the deceDtive nonsense involved in the terms "cholerine," "cholera nostras" and "choleraic" which have been used in connection with the cases on the Moravia in Xevr York harbor. Thev say the only name for the disease of ttiis nature, which kills in 24 hours, is cholera. A point which is to-day arousing greater popular apprehension than anything else in England it a statement in a public address by Dr. Ernst Hart, yesterday. Dr. Hart is the Chairman of the National Health Soci ety, and editor of the CritiA Med cal Journal He should be an authority on cholera, and he holds that its period of incubation it 1 to 15 days. The average is two to five days. The English public has assumed that the disease alwavs breaks out within 21 hours after infection. The Gov ernment health authorities seem to hold the latter belief, for all their quarantine regu lations are based on that assumption. Any body in good health who has not traveled on an infected ship is allowed to land and go bis way as soon as he reaches English shores. The Disease Snre to Develop. Tie chairman of the Health Society points out that it is not enly possible, but unavoidable that many should pass through our ports in apparent health, who, after a few davs, develop serious or fatal cholera. That Dr. Hart is right is abundantly proved. The past week about SO cases of cholera have occurred in different parts of the Kingdom, the victims being in every case perons who landed from an iniected district in apparent good health one or more days before they were attacked. England, therefore, as far as quarantine precautions go, is almost at the mercy of the epidemic. The health authorities say they have no authority under the law to compose stricter quarantine. j.ne most tnev can do Is to re quire a well person comingfrom an infected district to give his name and destination in order that the local authorities may be notified to keep track of liim. The newspapers are almost silent on the subject. A few days ago they expressed universal satisfaction over tho energetic preparation! which were being made to meet the crisis. Since the first of the week, while the news columns of the leading papers have been filled with tidings of the epidemic, save a few feeble slurs at Presi dent Harrison and Americans because of the measures adopted for keeping the dis ease out of the United States. Quarantine 'ot n Sarecnrd. Two or three papers to-day argue that me .ciuKiisu precautions are lar more effective than the American. They affirm that experience has proved, both 'in this country and India, that quarantine fur nished no adequate safeguard against the introduction ot cholera. They point out that the imposition of American quarantine regulations would mean practically non intercourse with the continent, an evil which they assure is not to be thought of lor a moment. Even with the imminent danger of a chol era epidemlo it is taken lor granted by everybody that there will be as many cases of cholera introduced during the present month as there have been during the past week. Public confidence in the ability of locai sanitary autnorltles to prevent the spread of the contagion from any of these many sources is unshaken. There is, in deed, far less popular anxiety over the sit uation in London than In New York, if the dispatches which are printed here correctly represent'American sentiment. It should be added that London was never in a healthier condition, and the circum stances are not at all favorable for the spread of the pestilence. If it should come medical men and local health authorities are everywhere preparing for any crisis. The Imminence or the Danger. The imminence of the danger is indirii1 by the publication yesterday of an appeal signed by Princess Christian, President of the Eoyal British Nurses' Association, calling upon trained nurses who are will ing to attend cholera patients to enroll themselves and to be ready for Instant service in the East Indies. The authori ties are particularly active in their prepara tions for any emergency. The sanitary con ditions of London's Eastside, it is a satisfac tion io note, nas very radically improved in the last two years. The Local Government Board to-day f"3 jjuunc announcement that its prepar ations for whatever may come are com plete. It further expresses strong confi dence that London will escape anvthing approaching an epidemio of cholera. In view of this confidence it will perhaps not provoke undue alarm to suggest that it would mean to have the experience of Ham burg repeated in this metropolis. A simi lar rate oi mortality in London as compared with the work of the pest in the afflicted German city this week would involve from 25,000 to 30,000 a day here. If the danger to Englandls great, that to Prance and other pans of Germanv is far grewer. quarantine in its ordinary sense is impossible, unless absolute non-Intercourse with infected districts should be proclaimed in France. The regulations are very strict and the penalties for violation or evasion include imprisonment and even death. Severe Punishments Provided. Notices in the French, German and En glish languages are now displayed at the various terminals in Paris of the railways which convey passengers irom foreign coun tries, advising travelers of the many severe punishments which befall those who in iringe the sanitary laws. The various contaminated countries are divided into three categories, those where Asiatic cholera is known to exist, those which are only suspected of harboring dis ease, and those with which communication is allowed to be kept up, after passengers therefrom have undergone a medical exami nation. One of the penalties incurred is that of death in the case of persons in'ring- THE PITTSBURCI THE ing the special regulations made in connec tion with the first category. Up to the present alfthe precautions con sidered necessary have been taken at the frontier, the only special measure adopted by the authorities in Paris being the prohi bition of the use of hired pillows which one has hitherto been able to obtain at the Paris termini for the sum of one frano each. At the eastern station the carriages having conveyed passengers from Hamburg and Russia are carefully fumigated before being again used. The nurses employed In the Paris hospi tals have bravely refused to avail them selves of the order of the Board of Health which lorblds them to go to the homes of cholera patients and superintend their removal to hospitals. The nurses held a meeting and voted that it would be coward ly and inhuman to allow sufferers needing their help to be carried a long distance by unskilled hands. London Filled Wllh Americans. It wllleadily be Imagined that the lot of the American traveler in Europe just now isn't a happy one. Aside from the direct danger of contagion, he is everywhere har rassed by most aggravating sequences of the great epidemic. Frontiers are crossed only after long delays and infinite but necessary annoyances. His bageage must be placed in hot sulphur ovens and baked, his pulte it counted, his tongue examined, and search ing questions are propounded by the med ical inspectors. The whole continent of Europe reeks with the odors of disinfectants. Cabs, 'busses and railway carriages smell like moving hospitals. Travelers on long jour neys are suspicious of each other and eagerly question their companions about their health and hailing points. It is gratifying to be able to say that 'not an American, at far as reported, has fallen victim to the pestilence. Very lew, to be sure, now remain upon the continent Lon don is filled with them, and all yesterday lucjr ncre clamoring anxiously to get home. The President's proclamation was read with dismay. It was interpreted at first to mean that all passenger ships would be placed in quarantine for 20 days. Everybody took it asa sentence to three weeks' imprisonment wutunugutoi come. Xh ere was creature-, lief when several "of the steamsnip com panies announced to-day that they would carry no more immigrants and that the quar antine restriction would thus be avoided. What Steamship Companies Will Do. I called to-day upon the London repre sentatives of all these lines. The new order is a severe blow to them, and naturally they regard it as unnecessarily severe. They profess to believe that the real object of the order is not so much to conserve pub lic health as to stop immigration in defet ence to the growing publio demand. As the representative of the North German Lloyd said to me: "It will accomplish its object completely. Immigration will be absolutely stopped." This is not Quite trne. The WnrfJi n man Lloyd will send no steerage passengers after to-day. All immigrants who have been booked by the White Star line must go by the Adriatic next week Saturday. None will be carried after that date and the Adriatic will take no first or tecond class passengers. The Cunard line announces that it will send immigrants only by certain b(..s, which include most of their Boston fleet. The Bothnia and Gallia will carry them on their next trips to New York. The following ships, in the order named, will carry immigrants weekly to Boston beginning next Thursday! The Pavonia! Samaria, Cephalonia, Scythia and Cata lonia. These boats will, of course, have to pass 20 days in Quarantine. Most nf th.m also carry first-class nasseneera. 1hn. who have been booked to ssil on them will have the privilege of transferring to other boats sailing at later dates, but as every stateroom is engaged for a month ahead, there will be many who will have to suffer a long detention on this side in preference to quarantine imprisonment The Inman, Hamburg-American, Eed Star and Guion lines have suspended immi gration traffic absolutely. Commercial lusllnct Still Alive. , The Hamburg newspapers of the last three or lour days are an interesting study. They print few details of the ravages of the piague, ana aevote tnemselves chiefly to the task of allayiug popular excitement and encouraging the people to renewed hope and courage. The advertising columns are full of strange announcements. The commer cial instinct is still alive, in spite of the manifestations of disease and death on all sides. Column after column is filled with adver tisements of disinfectants and remedies for cholera. One remedy is called "anti-bac-terine," and a doctor has invented an ele gant cholera pocket sachet. All kinds of soaps are offered. Biscuit manufacturers proclaim the excellent qualities of their goods which should be eaten instead of bread, and bakers declare that they ute only boiled water. A firm of marmalade and Jam makers hopes that no more butter will be used, but the children's bread will be covered with anti-choleraic jam. Of course all the mineral waters are advertised, at well as whisky and coenac. But close to these advertisements are others that reflect the true position of the population of Ham burg in a few words. Some of the Saddrgt Stories. One family announces the death frnm cholera of a grandmother aged 86 and a grandchild aged 5. Another runs thus: "For a little girl i weeks old whn. mnth.i. died after one day's illness and whose life can only be preserved by a mother's care the unhappy father seeks a foster mother." And close to H another: "Still stunned by the sudden loss of our little daughter Elsie, we have to announce the death of Willie, aged 10, taken from us alter a short but very painful illness." The most painful of all are those which call, in vain it would seem, for doctors, nurses and ambulances. The German medical papers are beginning to agitate strongly in favor of compulsory cremation where cholera has been the cause of death. Dr. Kuchen Meister writes In the AUgemdnt Medmnitcfa Central Zeitung: "The chief duty of the medical police should be to secure the destruction of all vehicles of infection, and as such must be recognized in the foremost place the bacilli known to exist in fhe bodjes of cholera patients. t f . PITTSBURG DISPATCH, EABIIN gs of clerks. Eight Dollars for Ninety Hours a Week Good Pay in tondon. IADT CASHIERS AT $3 A WEEK. Evils of the Indoor Apprenticeship CharacUr Systems. and WORKING 100 HOURS Iff BETEN DATS CoosnzsFOxnracx or the dispatch. London, Aug. 28. "Death and Disease Behind the Counter," is rather a striking title for a book. It was written by Mr. Thomas Sutherst, an English barrister whose penchant for reform had made him President of the Shop Hours' Labor League, and as its title would suggest, it deals with the general condition, and par ticularly with the hours of toil, of that numerous and eminently respectable class known here as shop assistants, but known to us as clerks in stores. In the rirat chapter the author says "I be lieve I am within the mark in stating that the majority of shop assistants in this conn, try work from 75 to 90 hours in every week. Of that majority one-fourth work the full 80 hours per week, two-fourth 80 hours, and the remaining fourth 75 hours per week. Contrasting the hours of shop assistants with those of mechanics and artizans, he says: "The system I am endeavoring to expose filches from young men and women behind the counter 21 weeks of overwork in every year without, I believe, any of the overtime being paid for." The Book Has Done Some Good. Beyond this bare allusion to the matter the author, I was sorry to find, had scarcely anything to say In regard to the wages paid this class of workers. His sole plea was for a reduction of hours and for an allow ance to these oppressed and suffering toilers of scCcient time, on at least one day in the week for healthful recreation and for the inhaling into sinking chests of a good breath of pure air. The need for such a re form as this is urged in a most startling manner and I do not wonder that the pub lication has done good. Not only has popu lar interest been awakened, but in a few instances concessions have been made by some of the larger employers and the move ment has been accorded a little help even at the hands of Parliament But the lot of the English shop assistant is anvthing but a happy one even yet In London there are about 100,000 of these, and to find out exactly what their wages and hours are at the present time I con cluded to supplement personal observation by a visit to the Shop Assistants' Union. My appointment was with the Acting Sec retary, Mr. A. G. Arnold, but that gentle man had arranged to have me taken in hand by one of the leading platform men of the union, an unusually bright fellow, Mr. J. Turner, and, if the play upon words may be pardoned, it turned out better than was promised by even such an arrangement as that, for I met and conversed altogether with ten or a dozen of these young fellows. The Indoor System In England. In this country a very large proportion of those engaged in retail stores live on the premises, their board and lodging, with what little home life they may enjoy, being afforded them by their employers. In small establishments they associate more or less with the familr, but .in larger concerns their domettio life is modeled, to use the same word which is often used here, upon the."barracks" principle. Scores, and even hundreds of young men, or young women, as the case may be, will be boarded and lodged in a single building, and ot course their accommodation and keep will form a large element in their pay. This "indoor" system Is exceedingly popular with En glish shopkeepers, and the reasons, as the employes state them, are that it keeps the workman more fully under his master's thumb and makes his labor less costly. One of the most lamentable of its effects from a moral point of view is that it puts a premium on single blessedness. I am cred ibly assured that some of the largest retail merchants in London make it a point to get rid of men after they enter the wedded state, and what the Shop Assistants' Union says of this is that it leads to numerous secret marriages and to some proceedings which are much worse. Tear Waited In Apprenticeship. The system of apprenticeship is another English institution which affects shop as sistants. It is held over here that before a girl can sell goods to advantage behind the counter she must pass a long period as a learner. In the drapery and millinery lines two or three years are required, and what makes this arrangement exceedingly re munerative to the shop keeper is that these girls will work long hours during all this time for nothing beyond their board and lodging. Let it be noted, too, that at the end they will not know how to trim hats oi to make dresses. I am speaking now only of what is necessary to become a waiter behind me counter, xnis apprenticeship is not a legal one: it is simply a mutual agreement which either party can terminate at will. J dui cusiuiu way uo just as oppressive as law,. and this custom, I am assured, is all but universal. Upon males, however, it bears less heavily than upon females, for the former; while learning, not only get their keep, but receive a little pocket money, which increases from year to year. Another very rigid and really oppressive custom in this country Is that which exacts from every applicant for a position as shop assistant a written "character" irom his last employer. Here custom is at variance with law, for there is no compulsion in the matter of giving a character, and yet, with out one there is no chance of employment The Requirement of Characters. So rigidly is this rule enforced that I have heard of numerous instances in which it has been brought to bear against persons apply ing for a place under firms in whose service they had been for years. As, however,they had been working elsewhere for a few months, the reply was "Yes, we will en gage you if you bring a character from your lastp'lace." This custom places the "shop assistants completely at the mercy of those in whose service they may happen to be. Sometimes a character extending over ten years is exacted, and that the effect upon those interested is oppressive is shown by the fact that various attempts have been made to cure the evil by legislation. In the book already quoted Mr. Sutherst says of this system that it "militates against the assertion of manly qualities,and, as a result, a servile spirit is engendered, which tends to make the assistant a complaisant nonen tity, ready to submit to anything, because there seems no way ot escape." Where so much is required you would naturally expect much to be given. But what it it 'to which these aspiring young people, after a long period ot virtual ap prenticeship, and attar the sacrifice on the part ot so many of them of all home life, with the exchange, as Mr. Sutherst puts it, of much that is manly for that which is servile after all this, to what sort of a position do they fall heir? ', A Hair Holiday That's a Mockery. Ai to hours, about the only chanee since the publication of "Death and Disease Be hind the Counter" It that in more inttances than before the thopt close and the attist ants get off a little earlier than usual ode day in the week. This' is a great boon as far as it goes, but to call it a "half holiday" is very much in the nature of a half mook ery. Some of the largest establishment! do really give a half holiday on Saturday, but the to-called half holidays, occurring in different parts of London on Wednesday a and Thursdays, begin, as a rale, at 5 o'clock, SBPTEMBEB 4. 189a 'IB SUNDAY, hardly ever before 4 o'clock, and as a mat ter of course the assistant has very nearly rendered by that what ought to ba consid ered a reasonable dav'a work. But both as regards hours and pay, I will now put before the reader the facts which transpired at our shop assistants' "round tM " At 41... l..-nt.n. 41...-A w- -- hv.v. -. kuut luicivicn kUGI. nt.9 JJG1- fect freedom of expression and yet a re markable agreement I was very careful, too, in the notes I made. 'Upon every point of importance all hands were appealed to, and I jotted down those statements only to which unanimous assent was given. The Secretary was in the olothing trade, and it was generally thought, he said, that shop assistants were better off in hat line ot trade than in any other. Their hours would vary In different localities. In large West End shon thir wnnlrl be from S to 8. but in others, and particularly in the East End, assistants would be employed as late as 10 on ordinary nights, and on Saturdays till 12, often with the further exaction of hours on Sunday. Wajes In the Clothing Trade. Their pay was given as follows: Lowest, 54 60 a week; highest (paid only to a few exceptional men). 515 00: areraze. about 57 50. Turning from his own line'to that of provisions, Jllr. Arnold gave this instance. A smart young fellow is engaged in a pro vision store from 7:30 A. it. to 11:30 P. M., on Saturdays till balf-an-hour after mid night; on Sundays from 8:30 A. M. to 3 P. M. His wages are 25 shillings a week (56 20). He is married and pays one-fourth of his wages for'rent That case surely was exceptional. I protested. But all present assured us that it was not so in any feature; that, in truth, it was only one out of many thousands. For luller information about the large grocery and provision trade of London I drew upon my friend Turner. He had been specially assigned to enlighten me, and this was his own special line. In West London the hours were 12 and 13; in the East and South they were 15, as a rule, on ordinary days, 16 on Fridays and 17 on Saturdays. The younger assistants were taken care of on the "indoor" plan. Thev would receive at first, in addition to board, about 51 25 a week; those who had longer experience from 12 SO to 55 a week, the last named turn being, for indoor workers, about the maxi mum. Out of the house the younz fellow would begin at 52 50 and in time he might reach 57 a week. But there were plenty receiving sums between those named, and the average, he thought, would be 56 25 for "out" assistants and 53 a week for those lirinp with the boss. Oreen Grocer' Clerks Fare Worst. The shoe trade, I was told, yielded very poor returns. Hours not much less than those given above, and the standard wage for a manager was 58 a week, other assist ants getting from 53 75 to 56 25 a week, and all finding themselves. But assistants in green grocery establishments were worse ott even than snoemen, lortuese only got from $3 to ?5 a week. In hosiery shops, which answer to our gents' furnishing stores, the hours for the West End would be from 8:30 A. M. to 8 p. 21. The first assistant might get 53 75 a week; the others would receive from 54 50 to 56 25. In the drapery or drygoods business there is considerable differ ence between the West and East end trade as to hours. In this trade, too, wages are always quoted by the year. It should also be noted that in this line of trade, the force, if small, will usually be domiciled under the roof of the master, and if large in buildings near by, still, however, under the employer's guardianship. What will they get? I inquired. .Learners will get, the first year, about 530, and the second about 575. This will be their regular wages, but by pushing the sale ot goods upon which the boss has put a premium, both these and the older hands can help out a little by extras. With such helps as the above, the best grade of drapers' assist ants' will sometimes earn, besides their board, 5300 a year, but the general run of such men would think themselves fortunate to make 5200 a year; - - Lady Cashiers at S3 a Week. So far we have given the wages only of 414 WOOD ST. DIGEST THESE PBiCES.-f- THIS SUIT (3 pieces) You Make the Terms. !I. v'w' BE HOUSEHOLD CREDIT CO. 414 WOOD STREET. 414 PITTSBTJEG'S Vffi&TCHF&Tk Wilt' .&. '" Wh fir AMES male assistants. Many are the girls work ing the same number of hours and eetting, of course, far less pay. Ii has already been noted that young women give two years, as a rule, for only their board and lodgings. After that, they begin, as to wages, about where the young men were when they first entered the service; that is they get at first about a 51 a week, and gradually advance to the general average, as it was stated to us. about S2. This, under the "indoor" system, which is the plan on which girls are generally employed. As to those not so employed, in many of the smaller shops a girl sits at the counter to receive the cash, to make change and to keep the accounts. A position of respontibilty, I thought wonder what such girls are paid? Well, my round table friends, some of whom had relatives in such placet, told me. These girls, who are not indoor girls, get from 53 50 to 53 a week, and out or this they have to make up shortages. Returning for a moment to shop assist ants oi the male gender, it seemed as though the poorest off in the select circle who gathered about us at the office of the Shop Assistants' Union were a couple of oil and color men. How assistants in this line are paid may be learned, with other interesting items, from the following object lesson: 'What are your hours?" I asked one olf these men. "Eighty-six a week in summer 100." Could that be so? Yes, all agreed it was so. "What wages?" "Twenty-two shillings a week." (55 50.) "Yes," said others, "and the highest in that trade Is 27 shillings." "Man of family?" "Wife and four children." "How much for rent?" "Eight and 6 for three rooms." "Wasn't that high?" "About the average in the East End." "How ever do you live?" I then asked, but perceiving the poor fellow's embarrass ment did not press this question, and sev eral spoke up and said that, excepting for the fact of the wife working In a liundry this family ooald,.not Jive, .and J wT irrieved. 'thoueS not sdrorlsed. to be assured that this was another case which was not exceptional. HENETJCUCKtEZ.--( TTER Never since we have been in business Has our CARPET stock been as complete As now nor the PRICES AS LOW. Brussels Carpets, Ingrain Carpets, BUY THIS LOUNGE TTER ONES $8, $!0, $15, $20. LE. Ms $6.50 $6.50 $G.S0. A.JDT3STG- CASH .AJSTID CREDIT HOTJSB.-. ! ,1 ' ! . . . . 1 f '-ga BRITAIN'S HOMESTEADjW S28NN!Uuiil 'MM -lfllpH?5l Thefinkerton Fight Almost ltaptf38B MfMMr cated at Cheshire's Salt Worksi JH WMmm A 'M WBSSm dSpl A BOAT ATTACKED BY STRIKERS, fj COEB'ETT. to FioHr in Mima The Schema of a Chicago Man to Repro duce the .Battle With Staffed Figures. Chicago, Sept 3. On September 7 those lovers of pugilism who cannot make the trip to New Orleans io see the big fight, can see an exact reproduction of the slugging match right here in Chicago. Harry Som mers, manager of MoVicker's Theater, con ceived a scheme whereby he could furnish a fund of- amusement to the sporting men and incidentally figured on receiving a handsome profit Mr. Sommers has secured Battery D, where a platform will be .erected in the center of the auditorium. On a raised dais will ba seen figures of Corbett and Sullivan in regulation ring costume. "The figures will be properly labeled," said Mr. Sommers, "with seconds and bottle holders in attendance. Although the figures are stuffed with sawdust, when they slug it will be a genuine contest for the heavy-weight championship of the world, and a live referee will be included in the list of properties. The figures will be made of horse hide tanned, and, of course, tough enough for the Halstead street contingent of spectators. The seams will be olose enough to prevent the couraze of the fighters from oozing out, and the Delsartean poses of the contestants will be so reproduced that only an expert could tell them from the genuine article. They will fight per instructions, and the instructions will be irom New Orleans by our special courier." It is proposed to have a wire direct from the ringside to the armory, and each move of the contestants is to be repro duced according to telegraphic instructions. Looking for an Asylum Site. Columbus, O., Sept 3. Special The commission on the location of the Eastern Ohio asylum has adjourned to Wednesday next, when the question will be decided. Steubenville and the three cities in Stark county are making the contest, and each have offered 200 acres of land. PsarxcT action and perfect health result tyring th.naa nrOn Wftt1. TftMn Pa.lvTf..M ATerlect-little put Very smalli very sure WHAT OTHER HOUSES CLAIM. Our Prices Are the Lowest ! Out Terms the Easiest ! YO0 ME 65c, 75c, 5c, 40c, J IVV) NOW, SAVE MONEY AND BE HAPPY. THIS FINE EXTENSION TABLE $8. On Very Easy Terms. 08. $8. Officials on Board Forced to He on Thefri Faces to Eicaps Death. 502MJNI0X TT0EEEES DBIYEIT AWAT: IBT CSHr,r TO Tnz DI3?JlTC3X.3 LOSDOif, Sept a-Cor.-ThereI.!J a remarkably close parallel between the' riot at Homestead and the revolt which has been In progress for two or three days In the Cheshire salt district A body of strikers resisted the attempt to Introduce non-union men. The first lot of new men were besieged in their lodgings, - tho police were overpowered and the non unionists surrendered and were sent back to Liverpool by the strikers. The employ ers recruited a second body of men in Liv erpool and brought them down by train. j The newcomers were provided with knives and bludgeons. The unionist workmen proved too strong for them none the less, and for fear lest the train should be wrecked it was sent back to Liverpool. While this disturbance was going on at the station a little scene was traniacted on the river which has a very distinct Homer stead touch about it The salt union launch Nymph was attacked in a narrow part of the river and nearly sunk. The officials whom the had on board to the number of about a dozen were compelled to take refuge in the cabin and lie on their ' faces to escape being stoned to death. The salt union has appealed for military help, and a squadron of the Fourteenth Hustarsbas been marched in fromLiTerl--v.fc!j pool. The police had been previously re inforced, and 200 of them charged to clear the banks of the river. Except the use of firearms, there was nothing wanting to make this a very tidy imitation of Home- stead. ? PI0PL2'S PABIYITE3 TO CAUCUS. Somethlnc cf Great Importance to Considered In Secret Session. Ba i Sx. Louis, Sept 3. Chairman Taubeneck has called a meeting of the National Execn tive Committee of the People's party, to be held at the Richelieu Hotel, this city, Sep tember 12. The meeting will be a large one, as not only the members of the Execu tive committee will be present, but the chairman of the State committee of each State in the Union has been invited to be here. Chairman Taubeneck declines to ttate'?. the object of the meeting, but says it will "j be held in executive session. For the Boys. Coma In and see the boys' suits wean inirat$l( $140 and 3 24. They lit fine, like iron and the prices are abont c wl)At you always have to pay. Ke' pleated or plain, sizes 4 to 13, at SL $2 24. See them, in our show wine P. C. C. C, Clothiers, corner Qra mond streets. Excursion Kates for Tonr The Plttsbnif and Lake T sell tickets to Tnuhgstor tember 5 to 9 incluiv,S.'--the 10th at excursion rates. - return . 414 WOOD ST, THI 90c, $ 00, 50c, 75c THIS RACK OlsTLlT S7. i-r" . .i (DSsT'JrW i .. J3 c
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